Tag: Weight management
High-cost weight loss drugs boost nutrition counseling with employers
Packages of weight loss drugs Wegovy, Ozempic and Mounjaro.Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesA few years ago, when Virta Health founder and CEO Sami Inki [...]
Medicare can cover Eli Lilly’s Zepbound for sleep apnea: Health Department agency
An injection pen of Zepbound, Eli Lilly’s weight loss drug, is displayed in New York City on Dec. 11, 2023.Brendan McDermid | ReutersMedicare drug pla [...]
FDA Zepbound shortage ends, impacts patients, compounding pharmacies
An injection pen of Zepbound, Eli Lilly’s weight loss drug, is displayed in New York City on Dec. 11, 2023.Brendan McDermid | ReutersThe roughly $1,00 [...]
Prescription fills for Zepbound, Wegovy weight loss drugs double: GoodRx
A combination image shows an injection pen of Zepbound, Eli Lilly's weight loss drug, and boxes of Wegovy, made by Novo Nordisk. ReutersPrescription f [...]
Eli Lilly Zepbound causes more weight loss than Novo Nordisk Wegovy: Trial
A combination image shows an injection pen of Zepbound, Eli Lilly's weight loss drug, and boxes of Wegovy, made by Novo Nordisk. ReutersEli Lilly on W [...]
Altimmune weight loss drug minimized muscle mass loss in trial
Altimmune on Wednesday said its experimental drug helped patients shed weight but also minimized the loss of muscle mass in a midstage trial, a findin [...]
Wegovy heart health approval won’t mean broad insurance coverage yet
Victoria Klesty | ReutersIn the U.S., Wegovy is no longer just for weight loss.The blockbuster drug — one of a handful of weight loss treatments to sk [...]
Wegovy heart health approval won’t mean broad insurance coverage yet
Victoria Klesty | ReutersIn the U.S., Wegovy is no longer just for weight loss.The blockbuster drug — one of a handful of weight loss treatments to sk [...]
Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly are tackling supply issues
Injection pens of Novo Nordisk's weight-loss drug Wegovy are shown in this photo illustration in Oslo, Norway, Nov. 21, 2023.Victoria Klesty | Reuters [...]
Novo Nordisk parent to buy Catalent to expand Wegovy supply
Boxes of Novo Nordisk's weight-loss drug Wegovy in Oslo, Norway, Nov. 21, 2023.Victoria Klesty | ReutersDanish drugmaker Novo Nordisk's parent company [...]
2024 expectations for Wegovy, Ozempic, Zepbound
George Frey | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesWeight loss drugs exploded into the public eye this year, and 2024 will bring more change to the evolving market [...]
Pfizer to discontinue twice-daily version of weight loss pill
Pfizer on Friday said it would stop developing the twice-daily version of its experimental weight loss pill after obese patients taking the drug lost [...]
Eli Lilly (LLY) Q3 earnings report 2023
Eli Lilly and Company, Pharmaceutical company headquarters in Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain.Cristina Arias | Cover | Getty ImagesEli Lilly on Thursday rep [...]
Ozempic, Wegovy drug prescriptions hit 9 million
A pharmacist displays boxes of Ozempic, a semaglutide injection drug used for treating type 2 diabetes made by Novo Nordisk, at Rock Canyon Pharmacy i [...]
Ozempic, Wegovy may curb drinking, smoking: What we know
An Ozempic (semaglutide) injection pen is seen on a kitchen table in Riga, Latvia on 06 August, 2023. Jaap Arriens | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesHeather Le [...]